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SD Adapter For Dreamcast Released
YokimaSun writes "The Dreamcast was the last console by Sega that had innovations that today's consoles have taken on board, i.e. broadband online gaming and innovative gaming controllers (such as the fishing controller). The console still lives on today, thanks to the support of the homebrew community that still churns out games and emulators and also the odd commercial release for the console by independent developers. Today the spark has been ignited by the fascinating release of an SD adapter for the Dreamcast that allows homebrew games to be played without the need to burn to disc. It's time to dust off those Dreamcast consoles and get back into free gaming. The same company have also released a Dreamcast modified with VGA support and a front-loading SD slot and its own BIOS. Awesome to relive some of those Dreamcast classics."
Is SEGA allowed to go batshit insane and demand all these people to cease from manufacturing/distrubuting unofficial products? If so, that'd be sad, because it'd likely be a matter of time. On the other hand, the system officially "died" almost a decade ago, they should feel honored that there are die-hard fans not willing to let their last hardware product go to waste.
All glory to Arstotzka!
This is welcome news for any (like me) who have Dreamcasts that work perfectly but have malfunctioning GD-ROM drives. Hopefully someone picks it up for Western distribution.
If your a dev you might have to burn a lot of disks when your doing bug checking. Yea an emulator will prob help with alot of that, but running it on the hardware can make a difference.
You are entitled to your own opinions, not your own facts.
I still think the Dreamcast controllers were the worst ever produced. Worse than the GameCube controllers, and worse than the N64 controllers.
Why? None of those is perfect, but they're not too bad either. The Playstation's controller, on the other hand, is a complete, intolerable piece of junk.
Circumcision is child abuse.
It cheers me to see the system living on so long after its official death.
saying the playstation controller is worse than a controller that had not one, not two, but three different ways of holding it, depending on which buttons you wanted to use, is just stupid.
And none of those ways to hold the N64 cramp my hands as bad as the only way to hold a PSX controller.
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